Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted that he had identified with the area’s boss pastors and government Home Minister Rajnath Singh “on the circumstance emerging in the wake of the seismic tremor”.

Losses have not yet been accounted for on the Myanmar side of the fringe, which is meagerly populated.The area has a background marked by effective tremors created by the northward impact of the Indian and Eurasian plates. They are moving towards one another at a rate of 4-5cm every year.

In 2005, an extent 7.6 shudder in Pakistan-managed Kashmir left more than 75,000 individuals dead.

In April 2015, Nepal endured its most exceedingly awful seismic tremor on record with 9,000 individuals executed and around 900,000 homes harmed or devastated.